Hi folks, as I know both Dietmar and Giovanni personally and as we all three *are* big Andy Summers fans I just wanted to add my 2 cents: I attended the same concert as Dietmar and I also have to say that Andy's playing at that particular night was really, really weak compared to other shows (and I saw him just a week earlier at the Frankfurt Jazz Festival). Andy *did* make a lot of mistakes, many more than usual. Dietmar is a longtime Police fan and was the soundmixer for the best Police coverband "Reggatta De Blanc" for quite some time. And he can play many of those Police tunes on the guitar perfectly, I can tell you. I think nobody disagrees that Andy Summers is one of the best living guitarists around, his technique is unique etc. etc. etc. But at that particular concert Andy's playing was just..."not so good". And if you look at his playing *on that night* through your "glorious Police heyday"-glasses (like Dietmar probably did) you would agree that he could have done better. On the one hand, you can judge the musical direction that Andy took -> for Police fans this is sometimes hard to follow (I know quite a lot of Police fans who don't like the current jazz thing Andy is doing). But that is everyone's taste and decision... On the other hand, you can judge his technical craftmanship as a guitar player: At that night he didn't play his high standard like he normally does, that's all. Cheers, Rüdiger (who was disappointed, too, of that concert) ===== "...but something in our minds will always stay." (Sting - "Fragile") Rüdiger's website: http://www.rhoeckel.de Please visit my auctions on Ebay! http://cgi6.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewListedItems&userid=rhoeckel __________________________________________________________________ Gesendet von Yahoo! Mail - http://mail.yahoo.de Ihre E-Mail noch individueller? - http://domains.yahoo.de